On the death of Mrs. Behn. By Nat. Lee, gent. Lee, Nathaniel, 1653?-1692. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B04308 of text R179397 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L857). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B04308 Wing L857 ESTC R179397 52614741 ocm 52614741 175935 2248530610

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B04308) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 175935) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2755:25) On the death of Mrs. Behn. By Nat. Lee, gent. Lee, Nathaniel, 1653?-1692. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for Abel Roper ..., London, : 1689. Caption title. Reproduction of original in: Trinty College (Dublin, Ireland) Library. eng Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689 -- Death and burial -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo On the death of Mrs. Behn. By Nat. Lee, gent. Lee, Nathaniel, 1689 1 262 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-04 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-06 Sampled and proofread 2008-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
ON THE DEATH OF Mrs. BEHN .

By NAT. LEE , Gent.

THE Sadness of thy Death extends my Muse , To rail at Nature , and the Fates abuse : That doom'd such Wit and Goodness to the Grave , To grieve the Wise , and make the Temperate rave . Why art thou dead ? Or wherefore didst thou live ? Such Pangs for Pleasure after Death to give . I lov'd thee inward , and my Thoughts were true ; And after Death thy Vertue I pursue . Thou hadst my Soul in secret , and I swear I found it not , till thou resolv'dst to Air. To Air , to Flame , to Beauty , and that Light , Where Heav'ns perpetual blushing , and more bright . Melpomene the stateliest of the Nine ; And more Majestick where thy Numbers shine ; Commands my Thoughts a mightier Urn to raise , And Crown thy Verse with an Immortal Praise . I mourn thy Death like Nightingales their Young : My Grief 's like thee , too precious for the Throng . I 'll bury it in Smiles , and force my Tears Back to those Fountains where no Spring appears . Flatman thy Mate , and that dear part of me ; But I 'll expect till all the blest agree To mount me in their Arms , and draw me near , Where I shall never shed another Tear.

London , Printed for Abel Roper at the Bell in Fleetstreet , 1689.